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Center for Research on Globalization
January 28, 2018
According to a January 26 Reuters report: “The United States will seek to boost its case for United Nations action against Iran when Security Council envoys visit Washington on Monday to view pieces of weapons that U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley says Tehran gave to Yemen's Houthi group.” Haley and herÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
November 24, 2017
The following article was written before the recent referendum in Venice and Lombardy. It remains relevant as far as, everything happening in Europe those days is becoming, more a more, a manifestation of extreme social “egotism”, of generalized destruction of any form of solidarity and adherence to moreÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
November 1, 2017
The tensions over the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration are accelerating to the long-expected fever pitch, outside Israel-Palestine and nowhere more so than in Britain. Already there has been a row over the decision to ban from the London Underground a series of Palestinian advertisementsÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
October 25, 2017
As violence continues to unfold in Myanmar's western Rakhine state against the nation's Rohingya ethnic minority, the agenda driving the conflict is likewise unfolding in a more transparent and direct manner. As was predicted – the US is shifting blame away from the US-backed client regime headed byÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
June 24, 2017
The US decision to shoot down a Syrian aircraft should be considered “an act of war” which must be taken to international courts, says a political analyst. Scott Rickard made the remarks on Tuesday when asked about a Syrian warplane that was shot down by the US earlier in June. On June 18, the SyrianÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
June 21, 2017
In the wake of Sunday's US shoot-down of a Syrian fighter plane and the following day's warning from Russia that it will treat all American warplanes flying west of the Euphrates River as targets for its surface-to-air missiles, the threat of an armed confrontation between the world's two largest nuclear powersÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
June 21, 2017
Before we can even process the acquittal of the murders of Philado Castile, we hear about another murder of a black person by the police occupation forces. This time the victim, Charleena Lyles, is a black woman who was also five months pregnant. Again, there is anger, confusion and calls for justice fromÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
June 21, 2017
On Tuesday, for the fifth time in recent weeks, US warplanes attacked Syrian military targets, flagrant acts of aggression. They're part of Washington's diabolical regime change plan – at the same time, testing Russia's resolve in the wake of its announced halt in cooperating with America in Syrian airspace,Ãâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
June 13, 2017
USA-North Korean relations remain very tense, although the threat of a new Korean War has thankfully receded. Still the U.S. government remains determined to tighten economic sanctions on North Korea and continues to plan for a military strike aimed at destroying the country's nuclear infrastructure.